BurkeHarper & brothers, 1901 - 214 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 54
Sivu 2
... thought , and to the maxims of wise practice in great affairs , and because he imprints himself upon us with a magnificence and elevation of expression , that places him among the highest masters of literature , in one of its high- est ...
... thought , and to the maxims of wise practice in great affairs , and because he imprints himself upon us with a magnificence and elevation of expression , that places him among the highest masters of literature , in one of its high- est ...
Sivu 3
... thought about life as a whole , with all its infirmities and all its pomps . With none of the mental exclusiveness of the moralist by profession , he fills every page with solemn ref- erence and meaning ; with none of the mechanical ...
... thought about life as a whole , with all its infirmities and all its pomps . With none of the mental exclusiveness of the moralist by profession , he fills every page with solemn ref- erence and meaning ; with none of the mechanical ...
Sivu 5
... thought it a humorous consid- eration to observe and sum up all the madness of this kind I have fallen into this two years past . First , I was greatly taken with natural philosophy ; which , while I should have given my mind to logic ...
... thought it a humorous consid- eration to observe and sum up all the madness of this kind I have fallen into this two years past . First , I was greatly taken with natural philosophy ; which , while I should have given my mind to logic ...
Sivu 7
... thought . " I have read some history , he says , and among other pieces of history , " I am endeavouring to get a little into the ac- counts of this , our own poor country a pathetic ex- pression , which represents Burke's perpetual ...
... thought . " I have read some history , he says , and among other pieces of history , " I am endeavouring to get a little into the ac- counts of this , our own poor country a pathetic ex- pression , which represents Burke's perpetual ...
Sivu 9
... thoughts on the less dignified parts of life . This is no unqualified virtue , and Burke might have escaped some wearisome frets and em- barrassments in his existence , if he had been capable of letting the detail of the day lie more ...
... thoughts on the less dignified parts of life . This is no unqualified virtue , and Burke might have escaped some wearisome frets and em- barrassments in his existence , if he had been capable of letting the detail of the day lie more ...
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Sivu 169 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Sivu 71 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Sivu 194 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Sivu 71 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Sivu 71 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Sivu 100 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Sivu 6 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Sivu 75 - For, in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavouring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself ; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate, without attacking some of those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood.
Sivu 141 - When France in wrath her giant-limbs upreared, And with that oath, which smote air, earth, and sea, Stamped her strong foot and said she would be free, Bear witness for me, how I hoped and feared!
Sivu 71 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.